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8eQYb TIL the original script for Happy Feet framed it as a much darker PG-13 movie, with uses of "Shit", acknowledgement of penguins having high mortality rates from predation and starvation, anti-religion/tradition undertones, and an appearance of godlike alien penguins in the ending.
jdXv TIL that West African countries supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa market, using child labor, and in some cases slavery , to supply international giants such as Hershey’s, Mars and Nestlé .
oRKXE TIL The Saint-Bélec slab (2150–1600 BCE) is a stone artefact from Brittany thought to be the earliest map of any known territory. The slab was discovered in 1900 and then forgotten for more than a century in the cellar at the Château de Kernuz, where it was rediscovered in 2014.
Bg09k TIL Chinese Qing emperors held early morning meetings with court officials everyday from 6, 7am. Along with important issues, Emperor Kangxi also attended trivial matters as he thought being careless even for a moment could cause trouble for the whole nation and disasters for later generations
9dep TIL a Walmart employee making $9.05/hour returned an envelope with $20,000 that he had found in the parking lot